4 brown eggs today from 3 hens??

[Minky]

I thought the magic number was 26 hrs...?

This morning I found 1 egg on the ground near the food/water, when I opened the run at 830am.
Unusual for my hens- a first actually! (they re really good about using the next boxes- which are closed at night)
Then I got 2 more brown eggs around midday and 1 more when I closed up at 830pm!!
Thats 4 and i only have 3 brown egg layers!

I know whose egg it is- they are always speckled...Which means she either laid one from the roost after 830pm last night or Snowflake laid 2 eggs in one day!!?? How is that possible. My other hens lay blue and green- so there is no doubt whose it is.

 

[TheTwoRoos]

Some hens will do that,nothing wrong with this.

 

[ChickenGirl555]

I’ve heard it’s 20 hours. They could lay it before they go to bed, and sometime late the next day.

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

One of mine will lay from the roost, then lay the next day some time in the afternoon (her normal time) and so if all 4 lay, I get an extra egg. Usually this happens if one missed the day before though.